WSSG Design Academy

Grading and Rubrics - Ms. Bailey's Game Design Class. The Game Design 101 course will involve the following graded activities.

Assessment Types A: Assignment Assignments require students to apply their knowledge to create a project these assignments D: Discussions (15) Discussions require students to post a response to a prompt relating to the material covered in class using evidence from their personal experience.
Author. Paul Darvasi is a high school English and media studies teacher based in Toronto, Ontario.

He is a lifelong gamer who holds a Master’s degree in Educational Technology (MET) and is a PhD candidate in York University’s Language, Culture and Teaching program with a research focus on video games and education. He designed The Ward Game and is currently co-designing Blind Protocol, an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) to instruct high school students on privacy and surveillance. His case studies on The Ward Game and Gone Home will be published in an upcoming book from ETC Press. He is co-director of the Toronto Student Film Festival, an active member of the IGDA Learning and Education Games Special Interest Group, and on the advisory board for GameTrain Learning.
Teaching History with Digital Historical games.

Images - serious games ideas. Mentor Game Trailers. Weebly. Board Games. Game Design. Pokemon Go. Using Gaming Principles to Engage Students. Game designers understand how to make games memorable and "sticky" in the sense that, even when you aren't playing the game, you're still thinking about solving its problems and puzzles.

As teachers, how might we make our projects and content as sticky as games? How can we engage kids in thoughtful learning even after they leave the classroom?

Gamer Types and Profiles. Degree programs. Pedagogical Adaptation of Games. Other Games. Assessment Data Aggregator for Game Environments. Questions / comments for Mike From Rose. GoodVideoGamesLearning. Fantasy Avatar Creator. Potential Assignment resources. Video Game Engines. Good Video Games and Good Learning (Gee Article)
The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education by Karl M. Kapp. Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age by Kurt Squire. Credly.

LMS Extras

In-person session. Mentor Game Trailers and Reviews. Jim Gee 13 Principles of How Games Teach.

Gee 13 Learning Principles that Games can Teach Us. According to Paul Gee, there are 13 learning principles that we can pick from games, divided in 3 main categories: – Agent/co-design principle: what you do matters, it affects the game – Customization of the experience for the learner; good games allow you to solve problems in different ways; they invite the gamer to try a different style – Identity: Who am I gonna be?

He ended up formulating the theory that all MUD players could be broken down into four main types: killers, achievers, explorers, and socializers. This theory has since been used in all sorts of game design situations where it doesn't apply - let's look at what exactly it does tell us.
Gone Home: A Story Exploration Video Game. The Influence of YouTube-Gaming-Content on the Community. The gaming industry is like a constantly evolving organism.

The different publishers as well as developer studios today are inspired by new ideas of their competitors and, with that, morph the whole gaming industry into one trending topic at a time. The most recent example is the sheer amount of upcoming Zombie/Survival games after the launch of the DayZ-Mod. More of that later on. Several years ago, this was a long-term process.
Gamer communities: the positive side. "How does anybody find friends?

In the traditional community, we search through our pool of neighbours and professional colleagues, of acquaintances and acquaintances of acquaintances, in order to find people who share our values and interests. We exchange information about one another, disclose and discuss our mutual interests, and sometimes we become friends.
Online gaming communities.